NASA Model Reveals How Much COVID-related Pollution Levels D...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 12:06
Using computer models to generate a COVID-free 2020 for comparison, NASA researchers found that since February, pandemic restrictions have reduced global nitrogen dioxide concentrations by nearly 20%
NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground for Tree Mapping, Ca...
Monday, October 19, 2020 - 12:42
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering...
Atmospheric Dust Rivers: Saharan Dust Makes the Journey to t...
Monday, July 6, 2020 - 10:34
During June 2020, dust from the Sahara Desert was forecast and observed to cross the Atlantic Ocean, impacting the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast states, and recirculated over parts of the mid-...
GEOS Captures Tropical Cyclone-Like System "Trudy"...
Friday, May 22, 2020 - 15:03
NASA's current GEOS FP forecasting system, which runs at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), showed all the ingredients necessary to trigger Trudy — possibly the first Mediterranean...
Developing an Ozone Climate Data Record from Assimilation of...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 14:35
Assimilation of high-resolution satellite observations can provide accurate representations of stratospheric ozone on time scales ranging from hours to decades, as shown by a Global Modeling and...
How NASA is Helping the World Breathe More Easily
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 16:58
NASA has been involved in the study of air quality for decades from space and with ground sensors. Merging satellite data with models provides a snapshot of chemistry throughout the atmosphere at any...
NASA Study Adds a Pinch of Salt to El Niño Models
Thursday, April 9, 2020 - 09:55
When modeling the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean-climate cycle, adding satellite sea surface salinity — or saltiness — data significantly improves model accuracy, according to a new NASA...
Earth Day Countdown T-17: Chemistry in the Atmosphere
Monday, April 6, 2020 - 09:45
Using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer, researchers can visualize the extremely complex chemistry that takes place in the atmosphere to form one common air...
New 3D View of Methane Tracks Sources and Movement around th...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 - 10:09
The computations for NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations were run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
Climate Modeling Then and Now
Friday, March 6, 2020 - 16:04
Computer models of climate have changed dramatically since the first Earth Day.
